alright what's up guys we got a question from our buddy at Alex today who says I've got a question
about lucid dreaming I'm keeping a dream journal doing reality checks researching for about a week
now I really want to listen but you know he's never in control of them sometimes he has up to
5 dreams in one night but it seems to just be a normal dream that he happens to remember and he
never seems to be in control any suggestions so a number of things here firstly you know if you've
only been trying to do this for about one week that's just not really long enough typically from
the very start when you first start learning about lucid dreaming to the point where you're able to
have reliable lucid dreams this process can take anywhere up to six months or even longer and you
know that's not something that a lot of you want to hear but that's just the truth it can take a
long time to build up these new habits obviously if you're good and if you really apply yourself
and do as much effort and research and practice as you can you can have lucid dreams in up to a
month from when you start but usually it takes six months or more now obviously if you would like to
only have lucid dreams after a month of practice I would highly recommend that you go and check
out my bootcamp course there'll be a link in the description but this is the fastest way that you
can start having lucid dreams really soon even if you've never had them before and you're starting
here but you know beyond that one week is not really a lot of time to be expecting to have
reliable lucid dreams that being said the other thing that Alex mentioned was that he had trouble
remembering them and he didn't seem to be in control so that is one of two things firstly okay
is your dream recall which is something that with a lot of people is always bad you know typically
when people start lucid dreaming they just cannot remember their normal dreams and they find it
really hard to remember what they even did the last night before they even start looser dreaming
okay before they you know just as they're starting to practice the techniques and try to induce lucid
dreams if they can't even remember their normal dreams they have no chance of having a lucid dream
that they remember or even a lucid dream so always the first step by se is to practice your dream we
call you know write down your dream signs keep a dream journal and just generally practice try and
remember your dreams because by actually telling your brain that you want to remember them you
train yourself to want to remember them more and eventually it becomes like a snowball effect the
other thing that you want to consider really if you're not having as much control in your lucid
dream is meditation now what meditation does is it sort of Tunes you out from the noise of the world
and lets you focus on your mind only and you know say if there's all this noise going on around you
by meditating you sort of put yourself back in your own head and in sort of a place where your
thoughts aren't in control of what you're doing because often in lucid dreams it's very easy to
become distracted right one of the main reasons that people can't control their dreams is because
as soon as you enter them you know there are all these exciting things going on that you're you
just want to interact with which then takes away from the fact that you're lucid okay it makes you
think about what's going on over here instead of actually remembering that you're lucid which
happens here in the Dreaming mind a very a very good example is say if you just become lucid in
a dream and you look down at your hands and you realize that you're lucid right you realize you're
in control in your dreaming but then what happens next you know you might see somebody else over
there another dream character and you go over and talk to them and before you know it you're engaged
in a conversation with another dream character and you forget that you're lucid which was the
most important thing so really it's important to through meditation practice separating yourself
from everything that's going on around you even for just a few minutes a day and that habit will
then transfer into the lucid dream and become almost like a sort of protective bubble okay so
if you imagine you've just entered the dream and because you've been meditating for a while you're
able to separate your thoughts and keep yourself awareness intact meaning that things can happen in
the lucid dream right but you are less able to be distracted by them because you've got this sort of
meditative bubble around you and I know that this isn't you know this isn't very scientific this is
based on my own experiences obviously there are others who have had similar experiences as well
but you know it's pretty much true what I found is that by meditating you're able to separate your
thoughts and emotions from reality at least just for a few minutes a day which means in a dream
you have the ability to create this sort of shield which stops you from getting too excited and too
involved in what's happening in the dream meaning that you stay lucid as opposed to just being
distracted by something and then losing lucidity so if this has helped you please leave a comment
with your question I'll try and answer them all as soon as I can and I'll see you next time